Christmas snowpack will break record

This year's white Christmas will be more than just one to remember

It'll be one for the record books.

Barring a dramatic - and highly unlikely - overnight melt-off, there will be more snow on the ground in Vancouver tomorrow than on any Christmas on record.

The National Weather Service reports only eight days in the last 112 years when there was snow on the ground in Vancouver on Dec. 25:

-- Five years in which snow fell on Dec. 25: 1954, 1 inch; 0.5 inch, 1909; trace, 2007, 1990, 1916.

-- Three years in which snow was on the ground Christmas morning that fell prior to Dec. 25: 1924, 2 inches; 1921, 1 inch; 1954, trace.

Jonathan Wolfe of the NWS reported about 9 inches on the ground in Vancouver this morning. Even though it's likely that approaching rain will diminish that total overnight, he said, it's a safe bet that we will beat the 1924 record.